"Old man of the mountain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Remaining with the old man of the mountain for several weeks, Jiraiya learned all the arts of the mountain spirits; how to cause a storm of wind and rain, to make a deluge, and to control ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis
... made a picture of himself living there a hermit in a shanty by the tunnel, digging away with solitary pick and wheelbarrow, day after day and year after year, until he grew gray and aged, and was known in all that region as the old man of the mountain. Perhaps some day—he felt it must be so some day—he should strike coal. But what if he did? Who would be alive to care for it then? What would he care for it then? No, a man wants riches in his youth, when the world ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner |
